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Faculty of Law

Christopher Heslinga

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Director of the Law Centre and Assistant Teaching Professor

Contact:
250-721-8604
Credentials:
BA (Western), JD (UBC)
Area of expertise:
Clinical legal education, poverty law, human rights law, residential tenancy law, employment law, administrative law
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Biography

Chris Heslinga has been the Director of the Law Centre since July 2023. Chris is also the on-site Supervision for the UVic Chapter of Pro Bono Students' Canada. Prior to joining UVic, he was with the University of British Columbia's (UBC) Law Students' Legal Advice Program (LSLAP) where he supervised all civil files handled by LSLAP students and also taught the “LSLAP for Credit”/Law 491 course. He also has experience working at UBC's Indigenous Community Legal Clinic (downtown), where he was a supervising lawyer and Acting Academic Director. Since 2017 he has been on the Community Legal Assistance Society's roster of lawyers who represent clients detained against their will at Mental Health Review Board hearings. He is currently serving as the President of the Association of Canadian Clinical Legal Educators. He has volunteered with the provincial Access Pro Bono Society as a lawyer. He has also provided advocate training at the Law Foundation of British Columbia's Annual Advocate Training Conference. He is a graduate of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law (JD 2012), and has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours, Social Science, 2009) from the University of Western Ontario.

Education

  • BA (Psychology), University of Western Ontario;
  • JD, University of British Columbia

Other Work

  • Public Legal Education Presentations through UBC's Learning Circle:

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